full-disclosure - Re: Disk wiping -- An alternate approach?

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Message-ID: <61414d3f1001252107q3066327w8eee41992853dc3f@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 2010 06:07:38 +0100
From: "E. Prom" <e3prom@...il.com>
To: Tracy Reed <treed@...raviolet.org>
Cc: full-disclosure <full-disclosure@...ts.grok.org.uk>
Subject: Re: Disk wiping -- An alternate approach?

2010/1/26 Tracy Reed <treed@...raviolet.org> (short extract):
> Executive summary: Data overwritten once is unrecoverable on any drive
> made in the last 10 years. So do a single write pass from /dev/random
> on working drives.

Thanks for all this information.
By the way, does somebody knows about the flash memory?
Is zeroing a whole usb key enough to make the data unrecoverable?

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